YANGTSE DRIVE
FURTHER PROGRESS MADE BY JAPANESE MENACE TO HANKOW CHINESE KEY POSITION IN DANGER RIVER MINED AGAINST WARSHIPS | By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day, 9.35 a.m.) TOKIO, August 23. The Japanese, in their drive on Hankow, captured Mataychen, and are threatening the Chinese key position at Juichang. The Japanese warships on the Yangtse River are heavily covering the advance, for which reason the Chinese have copiously mined the river above Wusueh. HEAVY REINFORCEMENTS. PLANES BATTER CHINESE DEFENCES. (Recd This Day, 10.15 a.m.) SHANGHAI, August 23. Squadrons of' Japanese warplanes spent the day systematically battering the Chinese defences on the various Yangtse fronts. Sixty thousand reinforcements were simultaneously rushed up to support the new offensive.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1938, Page 5
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